AGENDA
December 14th
Time (EST)
8:30-8:55

Registration and Breakfast

8:55

Welcome remarks byDenis Medvedev, IFC

9:00-11:00

Session 1: *Labor

9:00-9:30

Ian Schmutte
University of Georgia

Blame the manager? Displacement Events and Job-Driven Scarring

9:30-10:00

Sean Wang
U.S. Census Bureau Center
for Economic Studies

What is the Price for Opportunity? The Effects of Employer
Learning on Worker Promotions and Turnover

10:00-10:30

Natalia Emanuel
New York Federal
Reserve Bank

Firm Frictions and the Payoffs of Higher Pay

10:30-11:00

Alex Xi He
University of Maryland

Eclipse of Rent-Sharing: The effects of Managers' Business
Education on Wages and the Labor Share in the US and Denmark

11:00-11:30

Coffee Break

11:30-13:00

Session 2:
Adopting Practices I

11:30-12:00

Ornella Darova
University of Pennsylvania

Capacity building as a route to export market expansion:
A six-country experiment in the Western Balkans

12:00-12:30

Miriam Bruhn
World Bank

Missing Information: Why Don’t More Firms Seek Out Business Advice?

12:30-13:00

MJ Yang
University of Oklahoma

Why is Entrepreneurial Overconfidence (so) Persistent? Evidence
from a Large-Scale Field Experiment13:00-13:30

Lunch

13:30-14:00

Makhtar Diop
Managing Director, IFC

14:00-14:15

Coffee Break

14:15-14:45

Jordi Blanes i Vidal
Department ofManagement, LSE

14:15-15:45

Session 3:
Workplace Environment I

14:45-15:15

Tracy Wang
University of Minnesota

Corporate DEI Culture Spillover

15:15-15:45

Gabor Bekes
Central European University

Cultural Homophily and Collaboration in Superstar Teams

15:45-16:15

Coffee Break

16:15-17:45

Session 4: Public sector

16:15-16:45

Anne Fitzpatrick
University ofMassachusetts Boston

Managing to Learn

16:45-17:15

Yiqun Chen
University of Illinoisat Chicago

The Productivity of Professions: Evidence from theEmergency Department

17:15-17:45

Andreas Roider
University of Regensburg

Management and performance in the public sector:
Evidence from German municipalities

18:00

Speakers’ Reception*Keynote Presentation

Peer Pressure and Manager Pressure in Organisations

December 15th
Time (EST)
8:30-9:00

Breakfast

9:00-9:30

John Van Reenen
LSE, MIT

9:30-10:30

Session 1:
Workplace Environment II

9:30-10:00

Daniela Scur
Dyson School of Applied
Economics and Management,
Cornell University

Pay Transparency and Mental Health

10:00-10:30

Emily Nix
University of Southern
CaliforniaViolence Against Women at Work

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break

11:00-13:00

Session 2: Productivity

11:00-11:30

Jorge Tamayo
Harvard University

An Anatomy of Performance Monitoring

11:30-12:00

Wouter Dessein
Columbia Business School

The Management of Knowledge Work

12:00-12:30

Ritwika Sen
Northwestern University

Self-employment within the firm

12:30-13:00

Atsushi Ohyama
Hitotsubashi University

Management practices and transactional relationships

13:00-13:30

Lunch

13:30-14:00*Panel Discussion

14:00-15:00*Session 3: Learning II

14:00-14:30

Paul Mizen
University of Nottingham

Who wants to improve? Evidence from the Managementand Expectations Survey

14:30-15:00

Ralf Martin
Imperial College Business School

Managerial and Financial Barriers during the Green Transition*Session will be live streamed.

Keynote presentation: Natural Laws of Management

Susan Lund, VP of Economics and Private Sector
Development, IFC; Daniela Scur, Cornell University;
Raffaella Sadun, Professor of Business Administrationin the Strategy Unit, Harvard Business School;
John Van Rennen LSE, MIT